Outgoing scanning

[Joolee]

The best option for this is to install 2 separate spamfilters. I'm also
running both in and outbound filtering through the same filter but there
are also other issues you will run into.

On 19 February 2013 09:39, Jonas Akrouh Larsen <jonas at vrt.dk> wrote:

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> I’ve recently setup my MS setup to act as an outgoing smarthost filter as
> well as scanning incoming mails.****
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> However I’ve run into a problem. Obviously I would like the outgoing mails
> to be both spam and virus scanned no issue there, they are by default.****
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> However big difference in how I want mailscanner to react depending on if
> a mail is incoming or outgoing.****
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> I would prefer to simply bounce the email if it is considered spam. This
> is allowed for normal scoring spam but not for high scoring spam.****
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> Somebody tried to make an argument for it a couple of years ago on the
> list, but it seems nobody really understood what he wanted to do, but
> simply kept on with the “never bounce spam”****
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> Since quarantining or deleting outgoing mail without ever letting the
> sender know makes no sense to me, im curious as to what tohers are doing?*
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> Are you simply whitelisting all outgoing mail?****
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> Only virus scanning it, but not spam scanning it?****
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> Maybe you are spam scanning it but with a much higher score limit?****
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> Since we can’t scan at smtp time, I see no other good reason than to
> bounce the spam back to the user, WHEN ITS OUTGOING.****
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> This means this is only for internal users, hence I don’t see how the
> normal policy about not bouncing spam applies.****
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> Also it’s a bit weird that its allowed for normal scoring spam and not
> high scoring.****
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> Hope somebody have some insights to share J****
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